Fenne Lily - On Hold [Opaque Lime Vinyl]

Dead Oceans

£22.18

Format: LP, Opaque Lime Vinyl
Catalogue No.: DOC275LP-C1
Barcode: 0656605157535
Release Date: 11 Feb 2022
Genre: Indie/Alternative

 Fenne was born in London and moved to Dorset as a toddler, where she grew up in the picturesque English countryside. She was a ‘free range kid’, as she calls it, after her parents took her out of school for a period at the age of seven. Over the following year, they taught her while the family travelled Europe in a live-in bus. Even after she returned to traditional school at 9, her home
education never ended, extending to music. Her mother gifted Fenne with her old record collection, through which she discovered her love for T-Rex and the Velvet Underground and Nico. Soon after she fell for the strange genius of PJ Harvey and came to worship Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell and the richly crafted worlds of Feist, which inspired Fenne to pick up a guitar.
 Fenne’s debut album, ‘On Hold’, has been highly sought after and out of print since 2018. A tender collection of expressive, openhearted songs, the album was Fenne’s first foray into songwriting, written during her teenage years. Writing her own songs was initially a ‘therapy exercise’ for Fenne, who is normally reserved when it comes to talking about her feelings. The album, selfreleased in 2018, organically found a large audience online, which grew after she opened for Lucy Dacus and Andy Shauf’s North American tours last spring. Surrounding ‘On Hold’s release, The Line of Best Fit deemed Fenne “a new and extraordinary voice capable of wringing profound and resonant moments out of loss.”
 In Fenne’s words, “To have this record physically re-released is a big deal for me and the person I was when I made it. A lot’s changed since then but these songs and what they’ve given me will remain dependable reminders of beginnings and endings that shaped me as a teenager. For an album whose title is half ‘hold’, it makes sense that now whoever wants to can finally do that again.”
 US shows in February and March 2022, EU shows in March and April 2022.
 Available to independent retailers on Opaque Lime coloured vinyl.
 Press - Reviews & features in Pitchfork, Line of Best Fit, Under the Radar, Clash, NME.